DMGT

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 25(1-2) (2005) 95-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1264

COMBINATORIAL LEMMAS FOR POLYHEDRONS

Adam Idzik

Akademia Świetokrzyska
15 Świetokrzyska street, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
and
Institute of Computer Science
Polish Academy of Sciences
21 Ordona street, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: adidzik@ipipan.waw.pl

Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski

Warsaw University of Technology
Pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: k.szaniawski@mini.pw.edu.pl

Abstract

We formulate general boundary conditions for a labelling to assure the existence of a balanced n-simplex in a triangulated polyhedron. Furthermore we prove a Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorem for polyhedrons and generalize some theorems of Ichiishi and Idzik. We also formulate a necessary condition for a continuous function defined on a polyhedron to be an onto function.

Keywords: KKM covering, labelling, primoid, pseudomanifold, simplicial complex, Sperner lemma.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05B30, 47H10, 52A20, 54H25.

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Recived 3 November 2003
Revised 21 March 2005